General-Internet
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Radio and Music update: personalisation & mobile21 February 2012, 1:48 pm
The new Radio homepage, compared to the previous version (behind)
This week we have released several new elements of the Radio and Music product, which I will explain in this post.
Since my last post in December we have been busy releasing features and fixes every three weeks, listening to audience feedback sent in via our feedback form and also through formal user testing.It’s worth re-stating - before I go into detail on the new features - that what we are doing here is leading to ...
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Alix Pryde blogs on satellite TV at the About the BBC blog20 February 2012, 5:08 pm
Until now, Alix Pryde blogged about BBC services on satellite here on the BBC Internet blog. Starting with her blog post today about some BBC channels moving to a newer satellite, her posts move onto the About the BBC blog:
The BBC currently broadcasts many of its television and radio services on Astra 2D, so as part of this replacement process BBC services that are currently located on Astra 2D will be moved across to Astra 1N.
Ian McDonald is the Content Producer of the BBC Inte...
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What's On BBC Red Button 18th - 25th February18 February 2012, 6:00 am
White Van Man
White Van Man
Didn't catch the fantastic first series of White Van Man? Shame on you. But not to worry - you can catch the very best bits on the Red Button. Plus you'll have all the info you need to really enjoy Series Two!
Will Mellor plays good guy Ollie, the proverbial man with a van, written by stand-up comedian Adrian Poynton. In Series 1, Ollie reluctantly put his dreams of running a restaurant on the back burner when his ailing father, Tony, turned to him to take over t...
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BBC Sport: Live Beyond Live14 February 2012, 2:00 pm
a selection of design work in progress
I'm Scott Byrne-Fraser, Creative Director of the user experience and design team who work alongside the editorial and product teams on BBC Sport's digital products.
This month we launched the redesigned sport desktop site, the first step in our digital journey in what is a massive year of sport in 2012. It's a large scale modernisation of the site and the first full redesign in almost ten years. My colleagues Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have alread...
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BBC Sport: Strategy, User Testing, and Implementation14 February 2012, 12:34 pm
BBC Sport homepage
My name is Neil Hall and I work with Cait O'Riordan at BBC Future Media. Based in Salford, I am the product manager specifically responsible for the BBC Sport website. Working with our editorial colleagues at BBC Sport, I led the project team who delivered this relaunch.
Cait O'Riordan and Ben Gallop have already given you some insight into the relaunch.
In this blog post I am going to explain the strategy behind the changes we have made and how we went about implementing th...
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What's On BBC Red Button 11th - 19th February11 February 2012, 6:00 am
Dickens in London
Tune into BBC Red Button for the Omnibus edition of five short plays that mark the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens' birth.
The theme of the plays is Dickens' changing relationship with London - the city that fired his imagination.
Writer Michael Eaton has based each play on Dickens' own letters and journalism: Sketches By Boz and the articles from the journals Household Words and All The Year Round. But these short dramas are never afraid to play fast and loose with a...
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BBC Blue Room at the Consumer Electronics Show 20129 February 2012, 4:30 pm
CES: the calm before the crowds
2012: my first time at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I hop off the plane with ambition to reach as many of the 3100 gadget filled booths as possible, hard to do in a few days as there are over 20,000 new products alone. The place is epic, five ginormous halls spread over miles - ouch my feet hurt.
I'm information gathering for the @BBCBlueRoom - our consumer media technology lab - our 'micro CES'. We look at year-on-year trends to determine the imp...
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BBC Sport: Olympic page launch8 February 2012, 10:56 am
Every event now has a destination page.
Hi – just to remind you that I’m responsible within BBC Future Media for the development of the BBC Sport Website, including our Olympic coverage.
Following the roll-out of the new BBC Sport website (bbc.co.uk/sport) last week, today we are launching some new pages in the Olympics section.
In this blog, I will tell you a little bit about the new pages we are rolling out as well as talk about how your feedback is helping us plan further change...
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What's On BBC Red Button 4th - 12th February4 February 2012, 6:00 am
Radio 2 Folk Awards
Mike Harding
The Radio 2 Folk Awards will be broadcast live on Wednesday 8 Feb from 7.30pm on BBC Radio 2, online at BBC Radio 2, and on the BBC's Red Button Service.
The Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony is a much anticipated annual event in the music world with previous years featuring incredible performances from folk luminaries like James Taylor, Nanci Griffith, and Donovan who was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year's event.
This year, the ceremony ...
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Supporting Accessibility: Betsie, Text Only, and the Semantic Web3 February 2012, 12:00 pm
On the Autumn open post, Russ asked:
When did the BBC drop the 'Text only' option for the homepage?
Whether or not to provide a Text Only version of a webpage is an interesting Accessibility question. I established the Accessibility Team for public facing BBC digital services back in 2005, and we have been discussing that question since then.
At the time the BBC had two Text Only solutions which enabled users of early screen reader technologies and mobile browsers better access to BBC con...
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Closing Down a Server30 July 2010, 6:15 pm
Everything comes to an end, and there are times when shutting down a server for the last time may just be the right thing to do. Whether the hardware is old and the websites need to be moved to a new server, or you have just decided to move on, there are certain steps you [...]...
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Anticipation Builds for ARM-Powered Servers30 July 2010, 6:06 pm
Yesterday, the popular tech blog GigaOM posted a story about Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at ARM Holdings. ARM is known for its low-powered processors that have cornered the market on smartphones, tablets, and many other devices. Lately, Drew has become quite popular with the announcement that ARM is bringing their chips to [...]...
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World's smallest-waist woman wins domain dispute30 July 2010, 6:05 pm
Cathie Jung may have the world’s smallest waist, but that didn’t stop her from filing a court lawsuit over the domain CathieJung.com. Jung, who has worn a corset every day for the last 12 years, wanted to transfer the name’s ownership away from a corset company. The owner was using it to redirect visitors to [...]...
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Server OS Tips29 July 2010, 11:18 pm
Getting the right hardware and network setup for your server is difficult enough. Choosing the right operating system, configuring it, and then maintaining it can be overwhelming. Here are a few tips to get you through the process. 1. If you are on a limited budget, you should definitely consider a free and open source [...]...
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Server Backup Tips29 July 2010, 11:13 pm
Backing up your server may be the single most important thing you ever do. It could save your websites, your clients, and your business. We have covered quite a few backup issues on this blog. Here is a summary of some important points. 1. Always use a remote backup server. Although there are some benefits [...]...
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ICANN adds terrorism background checks29 July 2010, 9:37 pm
Never failing to draw criticism, ICANN has included a controversial new step to the gTLD application process: a terrorism background check. The new policy is listed in the latest edition of the gTLD handbook under “Section 1.2.1 Eligibility and 2.1 Background Check.” Background checks at both the entity level and the individual level will be [...]...
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Why it never hurts to double-check your hotlink protection29 July 2010, 9:22 pm
If you’ve owned a website for any period of time, chances are good you understand the importance of hotlink protection. Thousands of leechers hotlinking can take down the fastest of servers and rack up huge bandwidth bills. I’ve always made sure to set up hotlink protection of my sites, but was surprised yesterday to find [...]...
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029.com sells for $110,00029 July 2010, 8:59 pm
Don’t ask me what’s so special about the number sequence 029, but it must be important to someone because 029.com just sold for $110,000 USD at auction. Two more number domains, 980.com and 123123.com, fetched $40,000 and $20,000 each. There were a number of other miscellaneous odd sales. RandomActsOfKindness.org sold for $25,000, which is quite [...]...
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ICANN hands out keys to global cyber guardians28 July 2010, 8:56 pm
As a part of a security measure to save the Internet from complete and utter destruction in the event of a Dooms Day scenario, ICANN has handed out seven “guardian keys” to secret individuals from the following countries: Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China and the Czech Republic. In the event [...]...
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CreditCards.com and NetQuote acquired for $350 million28 July 2010, 8:13 pm
CreditCards.com and NetQuote announced this week an upcoming acquisition of sites CreditCards.com and NetQuote for $350 million USD. The former contributed $145 million to the deal, while the latter made up $2205 million of the sales price. The sites sold for so much because of their high traffic and revenue, but the sites’ enormous success [...]...
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Please sit back to read this! Distance affects your buying decisions22 February 2012, 10:43 am
Sitting back further from the screen can help your potential customers make the right decision to buy from you. Physical distance changes buying decisions....
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Finally, Twitter CAN make a cup of tea…!21 February 2012, 8:34 am
Twitter can do a lot of things – but now it can even make tea…! Poorly Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who plays Hayley Cropper, who managed to haul herself from her sick-bed yesterday afternoon to walk the dog and pick up the kids obviously had to return to bed later in the day to [...]...
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The Internet unites people separately20 February 2012, 11:08 am
The dream of Sir Tim Berners-Lee is to have a World Wide Web that is “free and open” and which extends its “benefits to all people on the planet”. It is a dream which means everyone benefits from being connected, learning from each other and sharing in that new-found knowledge. A natural extension of such [...]...
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People are honest online – honestly..!17 February 2012, 10:23 am
People are more honest online than they are in the real world. New research compares online profiles on LinkedIn with printed résumés....
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Search behaviour is not what you have been told15 February 2012, 7:36 am
Search engines tell us that only the first few results get clicked on. That is not true; people look through several pages of search results...
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I luv u – well if I did I’d SAY so…!14 February 2012, 1:58 pm
Today, all across the Internet there will be messages of love. From Tweets to status updates on Facebook and cryptic messages on YouTube there will be an outpouring of affection on the web. There will also be hundreds of millions of text messages sent out saying something simple like “I luv u”. In the past, [...]...
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How to beat Facebook10 February 2012, 7:03 am
Facebook engages its visitors better than other websites according to a new study. But the research reveals how you can take on Facebook....
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Online survey tool is not relevant to participation9 February 2012, 8:59 am
Online survey tool choice may not be worth worrying about to gain maximum participation in surveys. Your reputation is more important....
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How stupid can you be as a retailer?8 February 2012, 4:21 pm
Retailers are missing out on potential sales because they are not offering free, in-store Wi-Fi. People buy more if they get free Wi-Fi....
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Charles Dickens would have loved the Internet7 February 2012, 8:27 am
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ahead of his time. Today the world celebrates his birth back in 1812 when the notion of the World Wide Web would have been science fiction. But had Dickens been around today there is little doubt he would have loved the Internet, would have been a prolific blogger and [...]...
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Group Files FTC Complaint Against Google for Privacy Changes22 February 2012, 4:10 pm
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an...
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Flickr Rolling Out New Look for Viewing Photos22 February 2012, 4:07 pm
New interfaces for viewing and uploading photos will debut next week.
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Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid22 February 2012, 3:31 pm
If you are concerned about Google tracking you through your search habits, it is pretty straightforward to turn off the feature.
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Megaupload Founder Deemed a Low Flight Risk, Released on Bail22 February 2012, 1:35 pm
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was granted bail on Wednesday in a New Zealand court after a judge found he is not a flight risk.
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Operators Face SMS Revenue Dip Due to Social Networking22 February 2012, 8:30 am
Mobile network operators are facing a decline in SMS (Short Message Service) revenue as their customers increasingly use apps for alternative messaging services...
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9 Ways Google+ Can Help Your Business21 February 2012, 11:29 pm
Google+ hasn't exactily taken the world by storm. However, with features such as free videoconferencing and the capability to share and promote content with customers and colleagues at a touch of a (+1) button, Google+ is making a concerted effort to court businesses. We look at nine ways it can help you succeed in business.
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Google, Microsoft Butt Heads Over IE Privacy Skirting21 February 2012, 11:00 pm
Google yesterday countered Microsoft's contention that it's skirting Internet Explorer's privacy protection, saying it's "impractical" to comply with IE's rules.
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A.plus: Twitter App for Ashton Kutcher Fans21 February 2012, 5:32 pm
Ashton Kutcher is the name behind--and plastered all over--this free, third-party Twitter app.
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Browser Add-On Stops Google (and others) from Tracking You Online21 February 2012, 5:21 pm
Abine offers browser add-on that prevents Google, advertisers, Facebook, and other marketing companies from tracking you online via a free browser tool.
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